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Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'
- From: "Illia Bobyr" <Illia dot Bobyr at ronin-capital dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 12:17:21 -0600
- Subject: Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'
- References: <30355317.post@talk.nabble.com> <4CF70A11.8020604@acm.org>
On 12/1/2010 8:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> orbita wrote:
>> hi,
>> I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a
>> tail (eg. "tail -f abc.txt | grep abc"), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I
>> can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore.
>>
>> All I could do is close that window and open another cygwin session.
>>
>> Can anybody help?
> Try typing "reset" or "stty sane" (without the quotes) and pressing
> Enter. You won't see what you're typing, but after the shell should work
> again.
>
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